28 Facts About Peppermint Patty

Peppermint Patty is a fictional character featured in Charles M Schulz' comic strip Peanuts.

Peppermint Patty is one of a small group in the strip who live across town from Charlie Brown and his school friends .

Peppermint Patty has freckles and "mousy-blah" hair, and generally displays the characteristics of a tomboy, although she demonstrates an obsession with the smaller things in life.

Schulz had named his earlier character Peppermint Patty after Swanson, and he coined his well-known phrase "Happiness is a Warm Puppy" during a conversation with her in 1959.

In later years, especially after lesbian groups began identifying with Peppermint Patty, Schulz downplayed the fact that the character was based on Swanson to protect her privacy.

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Peppermint Patty was first voiced by Gabrielle DeFaria in the CBS television specials, then by various other child performers both male and female .

Various renditions of Peppermint Patty's theme song appeared in nearly every television special Guaraldi scored that the character appeared in, including He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown, It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown, Play It Again, Charlie Brown, There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown and You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown .

Peppermint Patty has chin-length hair that she describes as "mousy-blah", most often depicted as a medium brown, and has freckles.

Peppermint Patty wears a green, striped collared shirt, black or dark blue shorts with two vertical white stripes on each side, and almost always goes barefoot with sandals .

Peppermint Patty is noted for her persistent habit of profoundly misunderstanding basic concepts and ideas that most people would consider obvious, then blindly ignoring any counsel against her latest fixation which leads to ultimately embarrassing situations for which she blames everyone who warned her.

Peppermint Patty thinks a school for gifted children means that she will get free gifts if she enrolls.

Peppermint Patty confuses a dog obedience school with a human private school, going so far as to enroll and graduate with the other dogs.

Peppermint Patty is widely known for receiving a D- grade on every test or assignment in school .

At Marcie's urging, Peppermint Patty goes to a sleep disorder treatment center to be tested for narcolepsy; , it is determined that staying up too late at night, and not narcolepsy, is the cause of Peppermint Patty's falling asleep in class.

Besides guard duties, Peppermint Patty retains Snoopy's services in other ways, including as an attorney and as a figure skating coach.

Peppermint Patty is the most "tomboyish" girl in the comic strip; a star athlete, especially in baseball where her team regularly trounces Charlie Brown's.

Peppermint Patty refers to his daughter as his "rare gem", a nickname with which Patty is extremely pleased.

Peppermint Patty has often lamented her lack of a mother to help her prepare for skating competitions and such:.

Pepperment Peppermint Patty's mother is the subject of the 2022 Apple TV+ special Snoopy Presents: To Mom, With Love.

Not until a few years after she was introduced into the strip did it become apparent that Peppermint Patty had a crush on Charlie Brown, although it is pursued and received with varying degrees of projection, enthusiasm, and obliviousness, especially on the part of Charlie Brown.

Peppermint Patty frequently plays lovers' games with Charlie Brown, and gets frustrated or even angry when he does not take the bait; he does like Peppermint Patty, but only as a friend .

Yet it was still obvious to Marcie that Peppermint Patty liked Charlie Brown as more than a friend, wishy-washy or not.

In one Sunday strip on July 22 from 1979, Peppermint Patty essentially admitted her feelings for Charlie Brown and, in the same strip, Marcie admitted loving "Chuck, " so far as to affirming her willingness to marry Charlie Brown.

Peppermint Patty often tries to talk to Charlie Brown about matters of the heart and even calls him often on the phone, but Charlie Brown usually manages to somehow evade the issue, often by simply playing dumb.

Peppermint Patty developed a crush on Pig-Pen for a while in 1980, after Charlie Brown set them up on a date for a Valentine's Day dance.

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Pierre only returned Marcie's affections a fact to which Peppermint Patty remained oblivious even when they were holding hands right in front of her.

For years, owing to Snoopy's often human-like behavior, Peppermint Patty often refers to Snoopy as a "funny-looking kid with a big nose".

Peppermint Patty since accepts that Snoopy is a dog but often still treats him like a human, which pleases Snoopy since most of the characters treat him like a dog, albeit a remarkably gifted one.